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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 7 – Space

Steve Blank

We just completed the seventh week of our new national security class at Stanford – Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed the class to cover how technology will shape the character and employment of all instruments of national power. Class 2 focused on China, the U.S.’s

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“WHAT WAS ALL THIS VIDEO???” Five Questions with Magic & Loss Author Virginia Heffernan

Hunter Walker

Oh I was so intimidated to meet Virginia Heffernan for the first time. And not just tolerated my fanboy love of YouTube but we grooved about technology, avatars, adolescence and all things Internet. Virginia recently wrote Magic and Loss , an amazing and well-received book about the Internet as art. Critiquing but not judging.

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“WHAT WAS ALL THIS VIDEO???” Five Questions with Magic & Loss Author Virginia Heffernan

Hunter Walker

Oh I was so intimidated to meet Virginia Heffernan for the first time. And not just tolerated my fanboy love of YouTube but we grooved about technology, avatars, adolescence and all things Internet. Virginia recently wrote Magic and Loss , an amazing and well-received book about the Internet as art. Critiquing but not judging.

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The Big Bang. The Lean LaunchPad explodes at University of Maryland

Steve Blank

The University of Maryland is now integrating the Lean LaunchPad ® into standard innovation and entrepreneurship courses across all 12 colleges within the University. We didn’t know it at the time, but with that investment we had paid for front-row VIP seats to witness the origins of Customer Development and the Lean Startup.

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Doubling Down On a Good Thing: The National Science Foundation’s I-Corps Lite

Steve Blank

National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps Node (a collaboration among the University of Maryland, Virginia Tech, George Washington, and Johns Hopkins). After seeing the results of 500+ teams through the I-Corps, the NSF now offers all teams who’ve received government funding to start a company an introduction to building a Lean Startup.

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DC Regional Universities Use Lean Startup in Healthcare | NSF I-CORPS

Campus Entrepreneurship

GWU, University of Maryland and Virginia Tech have taken the lead in our region (the DC I-Corps ) and have some great people working on the program. From Baum , Here’s a sample of the healthcare and device technologies involved in the program, which runs through November 19. It’s led by Nathan Castro, a Ph.D. Exciting time.

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How we changed the way the U.S. government commercializes science: Errol Arkilic — Part 1 of Episode 6 on Sirius XM Channel 111

Steve Blank

Errol Arkilic was the lead program director for the National Science Foundation I-Corps , which uses my Lean LaunchPad curriculum to teach scientists and engineers how to take their technology out of the lab and into the marketplace. The Lean LaunchPad class. But nothing else like [The Lean LaunchPad class] was being taught. .